☌ Conjunction
Sun conjunction Mercury
You are your thinking. Associated with people whose sense of self is bound to being articulate or being right, and who take disagreement personally more than they would admit.
- Angle
- 0°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Fusion
- Bodies
- ☉ ☿
What these two are about together
Identity and the way you think. These two are never far apart in reality, so the tradition reads this pair as how closely somebody identifies with their own mind and opinions.
What a conjunction does
A conjunction is the tightest relationship in a chart: two planets sitting at effectively the same point in the zodiac, rising, setting and moving together. The tradition does not read it as good or bad on its own. It reads it as fusion. Whatever the two planets each govern stops being two separate concerns and starts being one, and it is often the placement a person is least able to see in themselves, because there is no distance from which to look at it.
How it reads
You are your thinking. Associated with people whose sense of self is bound to being articulate or being right, and who take disagreement personally more than they would admit.
In practice
Strongest of the five, and the most dependent on which two bodies are involved. A conjunction of two comfortable planets is usually experienced as a natural talent; a conjunction of two difficult ones is usually experienced as a single unavoidable subject that keeps coming round.
What to watch for
The absence of separation. Whatever these two do, they do at once, which makes it hard to tell which of the two is driving.
The two planets
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Sun and Mercury at other angles
Find this in your own chart
A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Sun and Mercury actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.